I have rebooted the system, and that doesn't work. Problem still comes up.

Background: youtube spontaneously combusted yesterday. I tried removing and reinstalling flash without success. Then firefox locked up going to the youtube home page. So I removed the old firefox, and installed FF5 instead. I disabled all plugins and extensions. I removed and installed Flash, and tried the 64 bit beta (maybe this is a problem) and removed that.

Im having the same problem, and i've tryed to uninstall everything, firefox, everything that is named Adobe, and it stills tells me to Close the Flash player settings manage, which i find in my Control panel, but how do i close it?

I'm having the exact same problem on Vista home premium 64bi using firefox.

I've searched through many threads trying to find a solution but nothing has helped, I have none of the related files in system32 (not even a /macromed directory) and still I get the error "The flash player settings manager is currently open. Please close the flash player settings manager and try again." when trying to install or uninstall flash with any executable. These messages also still occur when i try to run the installer or uninstaller in safe mode, when surely nothing at all should be running? As said before, I can't find any version of flash installed, and the system32 directories/files aren't there. I've also tried using the msi installer instead of the .exe, but i get the message "error 1722, there is a problem with this windows installer package - - - actio newcustomaction1 ,location: ...\installplugin.exe, c.."

This is driving me mad, I just want to use flash and i've never had a problem like this before! Especially one where i can't find ANY solutions that work online.

I have been receiving that same message ever since attempting to install the Flash Player upgrade about six weeks ago. I uninstalled

Flash Player so I could start from scratch, but continue to receive the same message whenever I try to install Flash Player. I even tried

to install the beta 11 and got the "The Flash Settings Manager is currently open. Please close the Flash Player Settings Manager and try again." message.

Don't you think it would be appropriate to accompany the request to close the Flash Player Settings Manager with some instructions on how to do so? AND how can I close it when Flash Player has been uninstalled?

I have a 64 bit Windows 7 system, using Internet Explorer, but it is not the 64 bit Explorer, at least that is not what appears in the About menu.